Re: Joint Strike Fighter

[ian0kerr@my-deja.com (Ian)]

john.mccabe@emrad.com.nospam (John McCabe) wrote in message news:<3be2614e.882178@news.demon.co.uk>...
> On 1 Nov 2001 03:38:12 -0800, ian0kerr@my-deja.com (Ian) wrote:
 
> >Working currently on the VSTOL predecessor of JSF.
GR.7
> I don't find
> >anything that we need from Ada and the available tools that C++ would
> >provide.
 
> I'm confused by this comment, can you please explain it in slightly
> different words?

Ada provides us with everything we need. C++ does not have an
advantage for us.

> >GENESYS An Application of OO technology to Aircraft Display Systems,
> >Neil Davidson, BAE Systems Avionics Ltd, Presented in Symposium on
> >Reliable Object Orientated Programming, at Institution of Electrical
> >Engineers, Savoy Place, London, 24th October 2001.

> Wow - I Had no idea there was a process in place in your department.

If you want a copy of the above, email me your snail address. :-;

Well as Ron D. wrote a process, a while back, for your department why
would you think we would be different?

> I thought BAE *and* AeI were having
> problems recruiting good, permanent Ada engineers because:
 
The turn over is quite low and we get replacements quickly. 

> 1) They don't pay enough
Money is not everything especially if the project is not the usual
shambles!
> 2) Many people don't want to do Ada!
 
> >I have done courses on
> >statecharts, UML, UML to Ada95 code generation, Test instrumentation
> >tools for Ada and  Ada95 updates.
 
> That's good - we never got *any* training on the rig team!

You should have asked your management as we had problems spending all
the training money one year. Probably because other departments did
not encourage training.
 
> >I don't think it is that difficult to do avionics in Ada95 if you
> >already know C++ properly, (assuming some knowledge of SW Engineering
> >principles).
 
> That depends on how flexible you are, and how much OO you want to use.
> Looking at it the other way, I don't think it would be difficult to do
> avionics in C++ if you already know Ada properly

So why not just write it in Ada in the first place?

> - and it will
> certainly be more reliable if you have to use C++,
 Even my C++ course teacher thought that C++ was a dangerous language.

> to use Ada trained
> developers to do the job than those who have only ever used C/C++
> based languages!

I hope you are happer where you are now.

Ian